Example sentences of "both [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day he saw them both through the window of a hotel bar when he was sitting on a bus in Shaftesbury Avenue . |
| 2 | so they both about the same thing , he 's been sitting there worried all day , he 's |
| 3 | It has to be a serious process of thought and research , both about the candidate 's own interests and motivation , and about the type of course and institution which they want to attend . |
| 4 | Quickly , she added , ‘ I mean , if you 're still wanting a place in the country , it would be far too small for us both during the week . ’ |
| 5 | May I thank you very much for your assistance to us both during the course of this enquiry . |
| 6 | Listen to the powerful , sinewy , stop-start ‘ Tristessa ’ or the sledgehammer rattle of ‘ I Am One ’ ( both off the wild ‘ Gish ’ LP ) and you 'll hear a group that loves to have melodies buzzing through a lattice framework of rhythm , a group with chemistry and a group with a sense of direction . |
| 7 | After a pause , Iris added casually , ‘ Invited us both for a drink after dinner . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I know I should n't say anything , but I 've known you both for a long time , and your mother spoiled Dana rotten . |
| 9 | May I thank you both for the most delightful afternoon I 've had for many years ? ’ |
| 10 | But I think I resented them both for the same reason , that is , that something was happening to me , or rather to my body , which was completely outside of my own control . |
| 11 | The meagre rations — two lumps of meat and a few strands of pasta in thin soup — were to last them both for the whole day . |
| 12 | Yet the sensitivities of both for the sufferings of men , women , and children drawn unwillingly into the war reflect something of the way in which thinking men asked themselves whether war was , in fact , not so much a way to peace as the prolongation of bitter conflict . |
| 13 | Vasopressin , secreted by both our pituitaries this time , is inhibiting your appetite , preparing you both for the inevitable . |
| 14 | Our cautionary comments and suggestions are offered to ease the transitional processes of attachment and detachment in order to improve them both for the individual and the organisations involved . |
| 15 | Relations between Japan and the USA were bound up with the Gulf crisis [ see above ] , with the USA appearing to want greater financial assistance from Japan ( both for the Gulf operation and for the upkeep of US forces stationed in Japan ) while also seeming unenthusiastic about the prospects of Japan actually deploying forces abroad in any capacity . |
| 16 | The better view ( both for the logic of the law and for press freedom ) is that the expression of opinion may still be defended as " fair comment " if it can be shown to satisfy the test of whether a hypothetical fair-minded man could honestly express the opinion on the proven facts . |
| 17 | The prosecution alleges Laing killed them both for the sake of stealing a car the family had advertised . |
| 18 | The next dance was another waltz , which pleased them both as a waltz was more intimate than some of the other dances . |
| 19 | He wrote six plays , contributed episodes to many series and serials ( both as a writer and a Story Editor ) , all of which went into production , including a successful series about a pilot-adventurer called Garry Halliday : a mixture somewhere between Biggles and Bulldog Drummond . |
| 20 | The opportunity to buy two outstanding adjoining properties in that location was extremely rare and the Perots had the opportunity to acquire them both as a family compound . |
| 21 | This means that a large proportion of contacts are also tied to each other , and that individuals are simultaneously linked in more than one capacity ; for example X might know Y both as a neighbour and as a workmate . |
| 22 | Matters get more complicated still when it becomes evident that a group of students may well be inventing them both as an assignment for a creative writing course , until the students admit that they too are ‘ a pack of lies dreamt up by the unreliable narrator in love with the zeroist author in love with himself but absent in the nature of things , an etherised unauthorised other ’ ( 155/733 ) . |
| 23 | The final example of the French fabliau to be summarized here is Jouglet , of interest to us both as an example of the scope for lavatory humour in the fabliau and for making a jongleur , a stereotyped character who is a sort of disreputable wandering entertainer , its central character . |
| 24 | In any one place , the two species gain by resembling each other , because predators will treat them both as the same kind of prey ; but few predators move far enough for there to be any advantage to the Heliconius in looking the same in distant places . |
| 25 | They have established a single court with all the powers both of a Court of Law and a Court of Equity . |
| 26 | The difficulties of reaching an unequivocal evaluation of the impact of the bomb-plot on attitudes towards Hitler can be seen , too , from a consideration of letters of ordinary soldiers from the Front , where evidence can be found both of a revival , if temporary , of faith in Hitler , and of extreme anti-Hitler feelings expressed despite the censorship . |
| 27 | Directors are usually agents of the company , and owe it duties both of a fiduciary nature and of care and skill . |
| 28 | I have altered my Mind ; I should not like it cloth , but duffil , let it be cloth , and not to be more than 11s at most , and full yard long , and two if you please , both of a length , and both large ones , full yard long , both of a price , they both be for one Woman — they must be exactly alike for goodness and price — fail not on Wednesday — and full yard long . |
| 29 | John Paul 's pontificate may then appear as , in part , aberration , while a pluralist Catholic Christianity will be revealed as not only heir to the central religious tradition of the West , but as able to respond without losing its core identity to the needs both of a truly world Church and of the ongoing transformation of human consciousness and intellectual understanding . |
| 30 | A new dimension is added , and the conflicts are placed between ego instincts and object instincts , both of a sexual , libidinal nature . |